Plans for today got canceled at the last minute so went in for some squats and messing around

7/7/2012Squat10xbar10x95 lbs5x135 lbs3x185 lbs3x205 lbs3x2x225 lbs

Worked on power cleans again for a while, Still doesn't make sense. I must be an idiot.

Did some pull downs, face pulls, dislocates and various other shoulder prehab stuff as well

Edit: Also weighed and measured the bars I like to use and the "fat bar" i use for squats is ~44.5 lbs and ~31mm around and the probably knockoff "texas power bar" I use for everything else is just over 44 lbs, so probably spot on 20 kg and ~28.5mm around. So ,the weight difference is negligible, and lots of the guys at my gym pretend to bench ~5 lbs less than they think

Last edited by Goob on Sat Jul 07, 2012 5:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[quote="Mikhail Koklyaev"]Benedikt he is deadlift god , I'm﻿ only amateur

[quote="Goob"]Slow motion videos only confuse me more, because it's very obvious they are doing things they didn't say to do. Like smacking their hips or thighs into the bar.

Mostly they say "jump and catch" which seems to work fine with light weights, but people aren't cleaning 180+ kg that way.

It is really hard to learn even with a coach, so doubly hard to learn by yourself. Don't loose heart, it will gradually click together, smashing the bar into your thighs is generally a good sign. Post a video here and we can give you pointers.

[quote="baldy"][quote="Goob"]Slow motion videos only confuse me more, because it's very obvious they are doing things they didn't say to do. Like smacking their hips or thighs into the bar.

Mostly they say "jump and catch" which seems to work fine with light weights, but people aren't cleaning 180+ kg that way.

It is really hard to learn even with a coach, so doubly hard to learn by yourself. Don't loose heart, it will gradually click together, smashing the bar into your thighs is generally a good sign. Post a video here and we can give you pointers.

Yeah, I'm going to have to break down and buy a camera. I'm not likely to find a good coach, so I'll need to start recording everything.

I've never hated crossfit more than I do while trying to find weightlifting coaches/clubs. There is a registered weightlifting club ~15 miles from my house, but it's a crossfit place, and they don't have open gym time, just group classes. I'm not paying $130 a month to take classes from terrible weightlifters and not have access to the gym outside of class hours. I'd rather drive 1.5-2 hours to the next closest weightlifting club actually, but that isn't really an option since I work pretty much 7 days a week.

@ninearms I've watched those videos dozens of times and will probably watch them hundreds of times before I figure out what I'm doing. They are by far the most helpful videos I've seen anywhere. But, thanks for posting them.

7/10/2012Squat10xbar2x5x95 lbs5x135 lbs3x185 lbs5x205 lbs2x5x215 lbs

Pull Ups5x5 various different grips

Some abs and shoulder prehab and one set of tricep push downs

[quote="Mikhail Koklyaev"]Benedikt he is deadlift god , I'm﻿ only amateur

[quote="Goob"]I've never hated crossfit more than I do while trying to find weightlifting coaches/clubs. There is a registered weightlifting club ~15 miles from my house, but it's a crossfit place, and they don't have open gym time, just group classes. I'm not paying $130 a month to take classes from terrible weightlifters and not have access to the gym outside of class hours.

Such emo vibes man! Not fair to say that all crossfit guys are terrible weightlifters, we all like to hate on them BUT some of them have good technique. No reason a decent crossfit coach couldn't teach you the lifts.

My take on this stuff is to make the most of the stuff you do have access to rather than dwelling on what is not available. When I was in Ireland, the gym situation was bleak, however I trained at a BB gym made some buddies, learnt stuff off them and found a few other powerlifting people to train with once a week. In weight lifting you can leant stuff off everyone, just be open to it.

[quote="baldy"][quote="Goob"]I've never hated crossfit more than I do while trying to find weightlifting coaches/clubs. There is a registered weightlifting club ~15 miles from my house, but it's a crossfit place, and they don't have open gym time, just group classes. I'm not paying $130 a month to take classes from terrible weightlifters and not have access to the gym outside of class hours.

Such emo vibes man! Not fair to say that all crossfit guys are terrible weightlifters, we all like to hate on them BUT some of them have good technique. No reason a decent crossfit coach couldn't teach you the lifts.

My take on this stuff is to make the most of the stuff you do have access to rather than dwelling on what is not available. When I was in Ireland, the gym situation was bleak, however I trained at a BB gym made some buddies, learnt stuff off them and found a few other powerlifting people to train with once a week. In weight lifting you can leant stuff off everyone, just be open to it.

I agree, some crossfit people are decent weightlifters, but that is not very many. Still, if there were actually weightlifting classes and open gym time, I would pay the $130 a month membership. But, there aren't weightlifting classes and there is no open gym time. So, I would have to do crossfit, not weightlifting, to learn to snatch and clean and jerk. I'm not even slightly interested in that. Crossfit places aren't like gyms, you don't get to do what you want, you do what they tell you.

Is there video of that guy snatching with the baby? I'd like to see how he did that

7/11/2012

Messing around with snatching a crappy 35 lbs "weightlifting" bar, it's the only straight one except for the 31mm bar

Cleans not so bad really, but not quite good2x3x35 lbs3x55 lbs from the knees3x85 lbs floor5x1x105 lbs floorfront squat last rep for 5

Front Squat5x125 lbs5x145 lbs4x5x155lbs

quads PUMPED and upper back completely fried

and an update of how skinny I still am

The red glasses are prescription, I broke my regular ones a while back and haven't got around to getting new ones yet, so I where those all the time. Also, the second one has just terrible lighting but I'm putting it anyway

Edit: I can't get the second one to go the right way either Edit again: bodyweight 180 lbs (~81.8 kg) this morning

[quote="Mikhail Koklyaev"]Benedikt he is deadlift god , I'm﻿ only amateur

The red glasses are prescription, I broke my regular ones a while back and haven't got around to getting new ones yet, so I where those all the time. Also, the second one has just terrible lighting but I'm putting it anyway

Edit: I can't get the second one to go the right way either Edit again: bodyweight 180 lbs (~81.8 kg) this morning

You don't look too skinny! I can only imagine how skinny you were before!

Electricity is out again, so posting from my phone. Some shit just explodes every month or so and my whole neighborhood will be without power for 3-24 hours while the electric company duct tapes some paperclips together to patch things up.

anyway, was exhausted today so pounded a redbull and went in for some quick front squats ^_^

I skipped lifting yesterday and slept till noon then ate hummus all day instead. I've been exhausted the past couple weeks, and decided since I can't take off work, I'll take it easy in the gym for a week.

Front Squat10xbar5x95 lbs5x135 lbs2x155 lbs1x175 lbs1x195 lbs1x205 lbs PB Fx225 lbs was just going to unrack it and see how it felt, it was heavy, so decided to go for it

wont be long till I get 225 lbs

friday will be the next day in the gym probably, plan on just sleeping and eating a lot till then. Weight has plummeted to 175.8 lbs (~79.9 kg) and I think I saw an ab trying to sneak out

[quote="Mikhail Koklyaev"]Benedikt he is deadlift god , I'm﻿ only amateur